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=== HISTORY IS OUR FUTURE ===<br />
''And we've been trashing our history''<br />
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This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction.<br />
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Feel free to join us on IRC! We're on the EFnet network in a channel called '''#archiveteam''', where we say truly awful things.<br />
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===What's here===<br />
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''Archive Team''<br />
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* [[Deathwatch]] is where we keep track of sites that are sickly, dying or dead.<br />
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* [[Projects]] is to keep track of AT endeavors.<br />
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* [[Philosophy]] describes the ideas underpinning our work.<br />
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''DIY Data Rescue''<br />
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* [[Introduction|The Introduction]] is an overview of basic archiving methods.<br />
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* [[Why Back Up?]] Because they don't care about you.<br />
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* [[Software]] will assist you in regaining control of your data by providing tools for information backup, archiving and distribution. <br />
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* [[Storage Media]] is about where to get it, what to get, and how to use it.<br />
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===Who We Are===<br />
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This project is composed of volunteers, currently coordinated by [[User:Jscott|Jason Scott]].<br />
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If you're wondering where to stick your nose in, we could use:<br />
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* '''Writers''', who can create clear essays and instructions for archivers and concerned parties.<br />
* '''People with Lots of Hosted Disk Space''' who have a proper hosted webserver and fat pipe, who are willing (when asked) to consider hosting mirrored dead sites or archives.<br />
* '''People who love setting up torrents''' who can do the same as the mirror folks, but do so hosting torrents.<br />
* '''OCD-rich individuals who want to download things''' who will respond to our alerts and call outs and download entire sites or diagnose ways to get at obfuscated data.<br />
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Mirror and torrent people should write [[User:Jscott|Jason]] at jason@textfiles.com.<br />
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The site is still very new. Please be patient with the missing bits or help us fill them in.</div>Tellflyhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Why_Backup%3F&diff=180Why Backup?2009-01-10T07:26:58Z<p>Tellfly: Why Backup? moved to Why Back Up?: grammar</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Why Back Up?]]</div>Tellflyhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Why_Back_Up%3F&diff=179Why Back Up?2009-01-10T07:26:58Z<p>Tellfly: Why Backup? moved to Why Back Up?: grammar</p>
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<div>=== Because They Don't Care About You ===<br />
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Technology is business, and in business, money often takes priority over ethics. With the law perpetually lagging behind technology and business, there is often nothing between you and getting screwed over besides your own volition.<br />
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Corporations do not contemplate their own inevitable end. At least, they don't do it in public, unless they are in really bad shape. When times are good, those thoughts are pushed away, and end users are encouraged to do the same. '''But backup is a constant need.''' <br />
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=== Disaster will strike === <br />
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Entropy will rear its head, if you leave things up to chance. You will lose 4 years worth of email, including communications from the early days of your marriage and the receipt from that flat panel monitor you bought online that now has tons of dead pixels.<br />
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There is real convenience to web services like [[Google]] Apps, but convenience should be evenly matched with user control and agency. Businesses can be extremely helpful, but they are also self-interested. As benevolent as Web services often present themselves to be, your data is valuable to them. And it should be valuable to ''you'', too.<br />
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=== But there is still hope ===<br />
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Luckily, '''[[Introduction|a few basic (and cheap) precautions]]''' can bring the long-term care of your data into your own hands, away from the short-term world of the Internet.<br />
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--[[User:Ross|Ross]] 14:52, 9 January 2009 (UTC) is currently wrangling this page.</div>Tellflyhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Introduction&diff=178Introduction2009-01-10T07:25:32Z<p>Tellfly: grammar</p>
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You're here because you have data that you want to save. If this is data you helped create, you are an '''end-user'''. If you have data that you want to save that you did ''not'' create, then you are an '''archivist'''. Archivists should go to the [[Software]] page. Otherwise, read on for information, tips and links.<br />
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=== The Most Important Data You Have To Back Up ===<br />
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* '''The most important data to back up and the least likely to be backed up is non-web-browsable information you created yourself and which nobody else has access to. This is your primary and most precious data: documents you've written, photos you've taken digitally, business and personal files that exist in only a single location on a single computer.''' Currently, this data is located on a metal platter spinning thousands of times a second, days or weeks at a time, dependent on a wide variety of factors to not be spontaneously lost. You should rectify this situation ''immediately''.<br />
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* Once you realize this, however, you are likely going to freeze up because ''this is some scary crap to hear about''. There's no need to do so; if the data has been fine up to this point, spending an hour or two to come up with a good backup strategy is time well spent. Play this simple mind game to visualize a priority path: what files, if you lost them, would represent the most pain to get back? For most people, it'll be '''financial data''' (spreadsheets, receipts, Quicken files) and '''photos'''. After that, it's likely going to be '''writings''' (essays, school reports, resume). And after ''that'', it's going to likely be '''media''' (movies, music, porn).<br />
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* Unless you're doing so professionally or as a major hobby, the non-media files in this list will likely not end up being too large. If your computer is a modern machine (less than ten years old), you will have a USB port. Go out to the store (drug stores and supermarkets count) and find a '''USB flash drive'''. Try to have it be multiple gigabytes. It will likely cost you less than $20. Bring it back, plug it into a USB port, copy over your financials, writings, and photos onto it.<br />
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* Once these files are copied over, unplug the USB key and store it away from the room the computer is in. '''You are by no means done, but you've now decreased your potential for pain by an incredible degree.'''<br />
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=== See Also ===<br />
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* [http://www.drivesavers.com/company-info/recovery-tips/ Drivesavers Recovery Tips]</div>Tellflyhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Backupyourdata.gif&diff=177File:Backupyourdata.gif2009-01-10T07:23:43Z<p>Tellfly: uploaded a new version of "Image:Backupyourdata.gif": annoy people with correct grammar</p>
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